[Footnote  !!!:  According   to   the  Arabian  authorities,
          (Johannsen, Hist. Yemanae,  p.  94, Bonn, 1828,) Abrahah was
          an Abyssinian, the  rival  of  Ariathus,  the brother of the
          Abyssinian king: he  surprised and slew Ariathus, and by his
          craft appeased the  resentment  of  Nadjash,  the Abyssinian
          king. Abrahah was a Christian; he built a magnificent church
          at Sana, and  dissuaded  his  subjects from their accustomed
          pilgrimages  to Mecca.   The  church  was  defiled,  it  was
          supposed, by the  Koreishites,  and  Abrahah took up arms to
          revenge himself on  the  temple at Mecca. He was repelled by
          miracle: his elephant  would  not  advance,  but  knelt down
          before  the sacred  place;  Abrahah  fled,  discomfited  and
          mortally wounded, to Sana - M.]
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